August 20th, 2026
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 633
THE RETURN OF THE TENTH DOCTOR!
Inside this issue:
- Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor DAVID TENNANT discusses his extraordinary career and the new series of audio adventures in which he stars alongside Rani from The Sarah Jane Adventures played by ANJLI MOHINDRA.
- We join TOM BAKER as he meets fans in Rye.
- Fourteen years after playing Amy and Rory, KAREN GILLAN and ARTHUR DARVILL reunite to talk about those times on their new podcast: the Pondcast.
- A tribute to TOM CHADON who played Duggan in City of Death and Merdeen in The Trial of a Time Lord.
- JAMES SUTTON reveals the story behind the creation of the Fugitive Doctor’s new sonic screwdriver.
- Meet the forgotten Romanas! LEE RICHARDS speaks for the first time about her fleeting appearance alongside Fourth Doctor Tom Baker in 1979’s Destiny of the Daleks.
- As Time Goes By… We trace the connections of this song through the history of Doctor Who…
- The Sontarans make their move in THE POISON SKY – this issue’s Fact of Fiction feature.
- THIS MONTH IN… 1984 – were the Tripods a credible rival for the Daleks?
- Are the shape-shifting Zygons the unbeatable force they claim to be?
- The Tenth Doctor and Amy married them… but what place do the Tudors have in Doctor Who?
- BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: original fiction by NICOLA BRYANT that sees the Sixth Doctor’s companion Peri with a new friend…
- The concluding part of our comic strip set during the events of THE DALEKS’ MASTER PLAN.
Regular features
- GALLIFREY GUARDIAN: our monthly round-up of news. Doctor Who brand manager JAMES PAGE explains how the TARDIS ended up at the Commonwealth Games…
- Reviews of the audio dramas from Big Finish and the new Fifteenth Doctor action figure release.
- Other Worlds – the essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
- Prizes to be won! Including the new series of Twelfth Doctor audio adventures.
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 633 is on sale Thursday 20 August 2026 from panini.co.uk, TG Jones and WH Smith priced £8.99 (UK).
Also available as a digital edition from pocketmags.com priced £7.99.
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Peter Bowen
August 29th, 2026 - 1:02amWill there ever be an abridge version target paperback of Shada?
bookcollector
August 29th, 2026 - 9:25amUnlikely as Gareth Roberts made some comments that essentially got his work cancelled. It might happen but it would leave the BBC open to criticism it just doesn’t need. They might get a new version written by another author at some point. I imagine they do want a target version of shada, it would be popular i think. But Unlikely to be Gareth Roberts version.
War Chief.
August 26th, 2026 - 9:33pmJust been watching The Faceless Ones….
The Fugitive Doctor sonic looks rather like the ice pen thing they had….
not RTD
August 21st, 2026 - 12:54pmthe comic is good and the black and white makes it stand out ,,,i am happy they got rid of 15 even in comic form he is rubbish
Red Five, Where Going In.
August 21st, 2026 - 3:10pmRTD, I can’t believe you said that about 15, it was you who hired him, so your as much to blame as anyone. :).
EatMySalad
August 21st, 2026 - 4:08pmHe is most certainly not “rubbish”.
not RTD
August 24th, 2026 - 1:19pmEatMySalad if you say so 🙂
Peter Bowen
August 29th, 2026 - 12:41amHere, Here. I agree
Demetrius
August 21st, 2026 - 3:23amI wish they’d stop it with the “jump the shark” fourteenth Doctor stuff. Unlike the TV movie, the Disney or I had no redeemable qualities and would be best forgotten by the franchise.
EatMySalad
August 21st, 2026 - 4:09pmIt does not need redeeming and is not “best forgotten” at all.
Andrew
August 20th, 2026 - 5:36pmWhat a god awful cover .
Looks even worse on the Subscriber edition with no text.
Quite a lot of good content in magazine, but I guess Tennant sells.
Duncan
August 20th, 2026 - 8:01pmIts very beige
War Chief.
August 20th, 2026 - 8:37pmAsparagus soup colour…..
Duncan
August 21st, 2026 - 12:52amYes 😀
MDS
August 21st, 2026 - 3:18pmThe cover reminds me of the unwanted supplements you get in Sunday newspapers advertising clothes that no-one would ever wear once bought.
Sorry David if the clothes were your choice. 🙂
Still its a bit of a laugh and we all need that in these trying times of too hot weather and pointless/needless wars. The contents of the magazine look excellent and hopefully it will be a good read.
bryan
August 20th, 2026 - 5:01pmIt’s a superb issue, not sure what’s wrong with the cover, looks fine to me. (NJMBIC) It’s full the brim again. The mechanic (Daleks Masterplan comic strip) has a panel that just look like an advert for a Remote Controled Mechanoid)
Very I threshing a out the new Terrance Dicks novels,the talk was for a DWM article/piece (Hoping for an icons edition full of stuff) but Terrances wife Elsa asked,could they not be Novels,as the thought of new Terrance novels in the new year makes her smile. So they are doing both.Fabulous.
I want a Fugative Sonic.very surprised about The Pondcast, had not heard of that before.the Amazonian Romana artless like last time ,is superb. After all this time new interviews.
But Tom takes the gold star. Fabulous pictures of a wonderful day. The two movellans cracked me up. Amazing.
Loads more,well worth a read.
Stephen Palmer
August 21st, 2026 - 12:14pmI’m with you.. what’s with all the hate? Yes the cover is crap, but there’s stuff in here for classic and nu-who fans, articles and reviews, and the comic strip
Is fun (although the art is a bit odd vis a vis eyes). It’s the best issue for blooming ages
War Chief
August 21st, 2026 - 12:59pmIts not hate….Dr Who is always fun……
But David even looks slightly sheepish on the cover…..!
Paraphrase William Shatner in The Final Frontier….’I don’t know….i just don’t know….’
Prof Horner
August 20th, 2026 - 3:03pmI so rarely get this magazine anymore, just the specials , like the recent Troughton. There doesn’t seem to be anything in this issue of interest. So I will give it a miss.
War Chief.
August 20th, 2026 - 11:10amTalking of As Time Goes By song….I watched Resurrection of the Daleks in 1984….it absolutely blew me away….
And immediately afterwards was a Bugs Bunny cartoon….where he was singing it….badly….!
Joe Cat
August 20th, 2026 - 10:47amI think this is such an uninspired front cover, the subscribers issue looks really dull, must rank as the most uninteresting front cover of DWM
War Chief.
August 20th, 2026 - 11:08amI think you have something there….even his shirt looks dull….
Peter
August 20th, 2026 - 2:25pmBut it’s the ultimate image from a selling POV for DWM – it’s David Tennant! They’d try and shoe-horn him on every cover lol
(know what you mean)
Peter C
August 20th, 2026 - 2:36pmI can confirm the subscriber cover is that boring!
Missyrules
August 20th, 2026 - 3:40pmOddly putting Tennant on the cover puts me off getting it!
War Chief.
August 20th, 2026 - 7:25pmMaybe someone will buy it for the tiny Fugitive Doctor screwdriver in the corner….